Wikinews
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Type of site | News wiki |
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| Available in | 30 languages |
List of languages Albanian
Arabic Bosnian Catalan Chinese Czech Dutch English Esperanto Finnish French German Greek Gun Hebrew Italian Japanese Korean Limburgish Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Shan Spanish Swedish Tamil Ukrainian | |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida |
| Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Created by | Wikimedia community |
| URL | wikinews |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 2943232 |
| Launched | November 8, 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | CC-BY 2.5 |
Wikinews is a free-content news wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that gathers and reports news collaboratively through user-created content. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying, "On Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an encyclopedia article."
According to a Wikinews contributor cited by The New York Times, Wikinews's neutral point of view policy aims to distinguish it from other citizen journalism efforts such as Indymedia and OhmyNews. In contrast to most Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wikinews allows original work in the form of original reporting and interviews. In contrast to newspapers, the English edition of Wikinews does not permit op-eds.
As of March 2026, Wikinews sites are active in 31 languages, with a total of 1,764,989 articles and 687 recently active editors (editors that contributed to the site in the last 30 days). On June 28, 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation's Sister Projects Task Force submitted a proposal for closing Wikinews.